Birthday Fun!

     As the season starts to change into fall, you can often hear Megan exclaim, 'I just love Fall!'.... and with good cause: her birthday is right at the start of the fall season, the holiday season will soon be underway, and she loves pumpkins and Halloween. 

Italy Birthday Cake

     For her birthday, Megan spent an afternoon chatting and shopping (which is apparently fun for girls) with some friends from Church. When they got back, we busted out the lemon pound cake I made that morning. It may not be apparent, but the cake is in the shape of Italy (with it's colors), which makes sense when coupled with the check. So yes, we are planning on going to Europe... early next year perhaps? We're planning on hitting Italy and Germany, so if you know of places to go and see, especially interesting, not-so-touristy ones, please tell us!

Hopefully Not the Biggest Birthday Check Megan Ever Gets

     After more chatting and plenty of cake and ice cream, we headed over to Redmond to a pumpkin patch. After careful screening, many interviews, background checks, calling all listed references, and much deliberation, we settled on the pumpkins that will work the best for us. Due to his unique shape, my pumpkin goes by Noggin or Cranium.

Awesome Pumpkin Patch!

       With pumpkins in tow, we went out to dinner at Wild Ginger, one of the best restaurants in the Northwest, which offers a blend of Southeast Asian cuisine. Despite having roasted duck and some teriyaki, we will be going back there just to order some of their blow-your-socks-off Squash and Sweet Potato Stew. 'Amazing' almost describes it.

     After dinner, we went to a modern dance performance by UW's Chamber Dance Company, which apparently featured some of today's best modern dancers. The performance was kind of out of the ordinary for us, yet very enjoyable and moving to watch and was a great ending to a Happy Birthday.